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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
Quote by -John Burroughs
"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it"
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear."
Quote by -Frank Lloyd Wright
"Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written"
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"E pur si muove. (It still moves.) (What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)"
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"The sun with all the planets around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens."
Quote by -Galileo Galilei
"To me, the single most important thing to me is that he has the right judicial philosophy, ... He will read the law as written by Congress and apply it to the facts of a case as written and not make it up as he goes along based on his views."
Quote by -David Vitter
"It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
Quote by -James Froude
"It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice"
Quote by -Leo Tolstoy
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
Quote by -Iris Murdoch
"It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood."
Quote by -Irvine Welsh
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
Quote by -Bill Gates
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Quote by -Aristotle
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Quote by -Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Quote by -Aristotle
“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”
Quote by -Booker T Washington
“A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
Quote by -Woody Allen
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained by previous visible events, and that all the motions, for instance, of the tongue in speech, or of the hand in painting, might have merely physical causes. If consciousness is thus accessory to life and not essential to it, the race of man might have existed upon the earth and acquired all the arts necessary for its subsistence without possessing a single sensation, idea, or emotion. Natural selection might have secured the survival of those automata which made useful reactions upon their environment. An instinct would have been developed, dangers would have been shunned without being feared, and injuries avenged without being felt.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not learned to write, the painter who has not learned to paint, and the impression that has not learned to express itself--all of which are compatible with an immensity of genius in the inexpressible soul.”
Quote by -George Santayana
“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.”
Quote by -George Santayana